Hamlet

Synopsis: A version of the play, made for television, set in the late 19th-century in a post-Civil War setting. The film is based on Scott’s 1996 stage production of Hamlet at Boston’s Huntington Theatre, with several actors repeating their roles. Black actors play the parts of Polonius, Ophelia and Laertes.
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Television
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Year of release: 2001
Duration: 178 mins

Director

Campbell Scott

Producer

Campbell Scott; Jonathan Filley; Mary Frances Budig

Cinematographer

Dan Gillham

Screenplay

Campbell Scott; Eric Simonson

Music

Gary DeMichele

Costume

Michael Krass

Art Direction

David Scion

Cast

Notes: Available on DVD - region 1 only.
History: The film was first shown on American television as a cable TV mini-series on the Odyssey Channel beginning December 10 2000.
Reviews: Campbell Scott and Eric Simonson’s "Jazz Age" Hamlet distinguishes itself as perhaps the most improbably low-key imagining of rotten Denmark ever committed to film. Claudius (Jamey Sheridan) is faintly amused; Horatio (John Benjamin Hickey) is faintly perturbed; Hamlet himself (Scott) is faintly put-out. The hermetic interiors give off a musty Masterpiece Theatre odor; an aura of dust and mothballs evidently leaves a capable cast feeling woozy. (Jessica Winter, Village Voice August 15-21 2001).
Diana E. Henderson ‘The Artistic Process: Learning from Campbell Scott’s Hamlet’ in A Concise Companion to Shakespeare On Screen’ edited by Diana E. Henderson (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005).

Shakespeare, "Hamlet". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av36960 (Accessed 26 Nov 2024)

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